Research Scholarships

Swansea University offers a number of awards for students pursuing PhD, MPhil, MRes or Master's by Research studies.

Awards are listed in closing date order then alphabetically by subject below, and are updated regularly

Scholarships for International Students

Various Subject Areas

Closing date: Please see individual adverts

Fully Funded PhD Scholarships in Science and Engineering

Science and Engineering

Closing date: Please see individual adverts

Fully Funded PhD Scholarships in Aerospace, Civil, Electrical, General and Mechanical Engineering

Science and Engineering

Closing date: Please see individual adverts

Fully Funded PhD Scholarships in Biosciences, Geography and Physics

Science and Engineering

Closing date: Please see individual adverts

Fully Funded PhD and EngD Scholarships in Engineering and Applied Sciences

Science and Engineering

Closing date: Please see individual adverts

Fully Funded PhD Scholarships in Mathematics and Computer Science

Science and Engineering

Closing date: Please see individual adverts

Fully Funded Engineering Doctorate (EngD) Scholarships: EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Functional Industrial Coatings

Engineering

Closing date: Please see individual adverts

Fully Funded PhD Scholarship: Improving the welfare and efficacy of cleaner fish in the salmon farming industry through machine-vision (RS283)

Biological Sciences

Closing date: 1 February 2023

Fully Funded EPSRC DTP and Swansea University PhD Scholarship: Machine Networks of Attention from Human Networks of Attention (RS200)

Computer Science

Closing date: 1 February 2023

Fully Funded Swansea University and Rolls Royce PhD Scholarship: Investigation of Ceramic Matrix Composite and Metallic interactions (RS199)

Materials Engineering

Closing date: 1 February 2023

ESRC Wales Doctoral Training Partnership - Collaborative Studentship 2023: Combatting online extremism: algorithmic amplification of counter-speech (RS258)

Criminology

Closing date: 3 February 2023 (12:00pm GMT)

ESRC Wales Doctoral Training Partnership - Collaborative Studentship 2023: Urban Acupuncture in South Wales: Pinprick Solutions for Urban Regeneration? (RS255)

Human Geography

Closing date: 3 February 2023 (12:00pm GMT)

ESRC Wales Doctoral Training Partnership - Collaborative Studentship 2023: Digital Restorative Approaches in Wales (RS256)

Empirical Studies in Law

Closing date: 3 February 2023 (12:00pm GMT)

ESRC Wales Doctoral Training Partnership - Collaborative Studentship 2023: What do we need to do to let every child thrive? (RS259)

Medical and Health Care Studies

Closing date: 3 February 2023 (12:00pm GMT)

Fully Funded ADR UK 'Collaborative' PhD Studentship: Air pollution and Adolescent Mental Health research using linked administrative data (RS277)

Medical and Health Care Studies

Closing date: 3 February 2023 (12:00pm GMT)

ESRC Wales Doctoral Training Partnership - Collaborative Studentship 2023: Optimising sustainable diets to support healthy brain aging (RS257)

Psychology

Closing date: 3 February 2023 (12:00pm GMT)

ESRC Wales Doctoral Training Partnership - General Studentship 2023

Various subject areas

Closing date: 3 February 2023 (12:00pm GMT)

ESRC Wales Doctoral Training Partnership - General Studentships 2023 (RS249)

Bilingualism

Closing date: 3 February 2023 (12:00pm GMT)

ESRC Wales Doctoral Training Partnership - General Studentships 2023 (RS244)

Criminology

Closing date: 3 February 2023 (12:00pm GMT)

ESRC Wales Doctoral Training Partnership - General Studentships 2023 (RS248)

Data Science, Health and Wellbeing

Closing date: 3 February 2023 (12:00pm GMT)

ESRC Wales Doctoral Training Partnership - General Studentships 2023 (RS246)

Digital Economy and Society

Closing date: 3 February 2023 (12:00pm GMT)

ESRC Wales Doctoral Training Partnership - General Studentships 2023 (RS243)

Economics

Closing date: 3 February 2023 (12:00pm GMT)

ESRC Wales Doctoral Training Partnership - General Studentships 2023 (RS250)

Human Geography

Closing date: 3 February 2023 (12:00pm GMT)

ESRC Wales Doctoral Training Partnership - General Studentships 2023 (RS242)

Empirical Studies in Law

Closing date: 3 February 2023 (12:00pm GMT)

ESRC Wales Doctoral Training Partnership - General Studentships 2023 (RS251)

Linguistics

Closing date: 3 February 2023 (12:00pm GMT)

ESRC Wales Doctoral Training Partnership - General Studentships 2023 (RS245)

Management and Business

Closing date: 3 February 2023 (12:00pm GMT)

ESRC Wales Doctoral Training Partnership - General Studentships 2023 (RS247)

Psychology

Closing date: 3 February 2023 (12:00pm GMT)

ESRC Wales Doctoral Training Partnership - General Studentships 2023 (RS241)

Sport and Exercise Science

Closing date: 3 February 2023 (12:00pm GMT)

Fully Funded Swansea University and Rentokil-Initial PhD Scholarship: Characterisation and manipulation of urban light environments for fly control (RS239)

Biosciences

Closing date: 3 February 2023

Fully Funded EPSRC and Royal Society PhD Scholarship: Spin-optics of organic semiconductors: making physics work for biology (RS238)

Chemistry

Closing date: 3 February 2023

Fully Funded EPSRC and Swansea PhD Scholarship: Interpretable Machine Learning Modelling of Future Extreme Floods under Climate Change (RS213)

Civil Engineering

Closing date: 3 February 2023

Fully Funded EPSRC DTP and Salts Healthcare PhD Scholarship: Environmentally Green (Nano) Engineering Solutions for Replacing Plastics (RS216)

Energy Innovation

Closing date: 3 February 2023

Fully Funded EPSRC and Rolls Royce PhD Scholarship: Mechanical Testing of Aerospace Alloys for Hydrogen Powered Gas Turbines (RS279)

Materials Engineering

Closing date: 6 February 2023

Fully Funded EPSRC and Swansea PhD: Collaborative Robotics Technology for Assembly & Disassembly of Awkward-shaped Objects in Manufacturing Environment (RS276)

Mechanical Engineering

Closing date: 6 February 2023

Fully Funded EPSRC PhD Scholarship: Analysis and Numerics of Stochastic Partial Differential Equations (RS188)

Mathematics

Closing date: 8 February 2023

Fully Funded STFC and Swansea University PhD Scholarship: Probing the Early Universe with the Gravitational Waves (RS212)

Physics

Closing date: 8 February 2023

Fully Funded STFC and Swansea University PhD Scholarship: Tests of quantum gravity with gravitational waves (RS205)

Physics

Closing date: 8 February 2023

Fully Funded UKRI CDT Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Advance Computing (AIMLAC) PhD Scholarships 2023

Various Subject Areas

Closing date: 10 February 2023

Fully Funded UKRI CDT AIMLAC PhD Scholarship: Optimising Attack-Defence Trees (ADT) using Evolutionary Computing (RS192 - AIMLAC2)

Computer Science

Closing date: 10 February 2023

Fully Funded UKRI CDT AIMLAC PhD Scholarship: Protein Structure Prediction via Deep Learning (RS196 - AIMLAC6)

Computer Science / Biomedical Science

Closing date: 10 February 2023

Fully Funded UKRI CDT AIMLAC PhD Scholarship: AI based approaches multi-dimensional functional genomics in cancer patients (RS195 - AIMLAC5)

Medicine

Closing date: 10 February 2023

Fully Funded UKRI CDT AIMLAC PhD Scholarship: Data Lab Cymru (RS194 - AIMLAC4)

Medicine

Closing date: 10 February 2023

Fully Funded UKRI CDT AIMLAC PhD Scholarship: Development of a plasma lens for Laser hybrid Accelerator for Radiobiological Applications (RS197 - AIMLAC7)

Physics / Medical Physics

Closing date: 10 February 2023

Fully Funded UKRI CDT AIMLAC PhD Scholarship: Application of Machine Learning for non-destructive beam profile measurements at CERN’s LHC (RS275 - AIMLAC8)

Physics

Closing date: 10 February 2023

Fully Funded UKRI CDT AIMLAC PhD Scholarship: Tests of the dark sector with gravitational waves (RS193 - AIMLAC3)

Physics / Mathematics

Closing date: 10 February 2023

Fully Funded UKRI CDT AIMLAC PhD Scholarship: Using Machine Learning to understand Lattice QCD Data (RS191 - AIMLAC1)

Physics

Closing date: 10 February 2023

Fully Funded EPSRC PhD Scholarship: Single synapse measurements in neuromorphic percolating nanoparticle networks (RS186)

Nanotechnology

Closing date: 15 February 2023

Fully Funded STFC and Swansea University PhD Scholarship: Studying confinement via centre vortices (RS235)

Physics

Closing date: 15 February 2023

Fully Funded STFC and Swansea University PhD Scholarship: Wilson loops and other observables in CFTs (RS229)

Physics

Closing date: 15 February 2023

Fully Funded EPSRC and Swansea University PhD Scholarship: Comparing the expressiveness of transducers and simply-typed linear λ-calculi (RS181)

Computer Science

Closing date: 17 February 2023

UKRI EPSRC CDT EngD Scholarship: The development of low particulate emissions coatings for Euro 7-compliant disc brake components (RS261)

Engineering

Closing date: 17 February 2023

UKRI EPSRC CDT EngD Scholarship: Exploring Corrosion Performance in Rad-Cure Coating Systems (RS253)

Engineering

Closing date: 17 February 2023

UKRI EPSRC CDT EngD Scholarship: The development of an iron-based alloy powder for wear resistant coatings applied using advanced plasma spray systems (RS260)

Engineering

Closing date: 17 February 2023

UKRI EPSRC CDT EngD Scholarship: The Influence of Oxygen Reduction on Corrosion Protective Organic Coating Failure (RS252)

Engineering

Closing date: 17 February 2023

UKRI EPSRC CDT EngD Scholarship: Paint Recycling for End-of-Life Construction Cladding (RS254)

Engineering

Closing date: 17 February 2023

Fully Funded EPSRC and Rolls Royce PhD Scholarship: Repair of Next Generation Blisk Alloys (RS210)

Materials Engineering

Closing date: 17 February 2023

Fully Funded Swansea and HMRI PhD Scholarship: Epigenomic and transcriptomic plasticity investigations of solid tumour cancers (RS267)

Biomedical Engineering

Closing date: 20 February 2023

Fully Funded EPSRC DTP and Swansea University PhD Scholarship: Trusses: structure, representations and applications (RS214)

Mathematics

Closing date: 22 February 2023

Fully Funded EPSRC and UKAEA PhD Scholarship: Fluid-Structure Interaction Measurements on Largely, Elastically Deforming Structures (F-SIMLEDS) (RS215)

Mechanical Engineering

Closing date: 22 February 2023

Fully Funded EPSRC DTP and Johnson Matthey PhD Scholarship: Atomic Imaging of Nanoparticle Catalysts during Operation (RS236)

Nanotechnology

Closing date: 24 February 2023

Fully Funded PhD Scholarship: Understanding the molecular basis of welfare and efficacy of cleaner fish in the fish farming industry (RS266)

Biological Sciences

Closing date: 27 February 2023

Swansea University Faculty of Science and Engineering Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC) PhD Scholarships 2023

Science and Engineering

Closing date: 27 February 2023 (23:59 GMT)

Swansea University Faculty of Science and Engineering Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC) PhD Scholarships 2023 (RS263)

Biosciences, Geography and Physics

Closing date: 27 February 2023 (23:59 GMT)

Swansea University Faculty of Science and Engineering Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC) PhD Scholarships 2023 (RS262)

Engineering

Closing date: 27 February 2023 (23:59 GMT)

Swansea University Faculty of Science and Engineering Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC) PhD Scholarships 2023 (RS264)

Engineering and Applied Sciences

Closing date: 27 February 2023 (23:59 GMT)

Swansea University Faculty of Science and Engineering Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC) PhD Scholarships 2023 (RS265)

Mathematics and Computer Science

Closing date: 27 February 2023 (23:59 GMT)

Fully Funded EPSRC CDT PhD Scholarships in Enhancing Human Interactions and Collaborations with Data and Intelligence Driven Systems (RS185)

Computer Science

Closing date: 1 March 2023

Fully Funded EPSRC PhD Scholarship: Targeting the NS1-2 and RNA-dependent RNA polymerase proteins (RS240)

Medical and Healthcare Studies

Closing date: 1 March 2023

UKRI EPSRC CDT EngD Scholarship: Prevention of Corrosion of Cast Iron Water Mains (RS282)

Engineering

Closing date: 3 March 2023

UKRI EPSRC CDT EngD Scholarship: The Formulation of Recombinant Collagen Materials as Coatings in Medical Devices (RS284)

Engineering

Closing date: 3 March 2023

UKRI EPSRC CDT EngD Scholarship: Bio-inspired Coatings with Advanced Properties from Natural Resources (RS285)

Engineering

Closing date: 3 March 2023

UKRI EPSRC CDT EngD Scholarship: The use of meta-surfaces and functional coatings to improve Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) Anti-Jam (RS286)

Engineering

Closing date: 3 March 2023

Fully Funded EPSRC & AkzoNobel PhD Scholarship: Novel Coatings for the Prevention of Cut Edge Corrosion on Galvanized Steel (RS278)

Materials Engineering

Closing date: 3 March 2023

Fully Funded EPSRC DTP PhD: Bio-inspired flow control studies under gust and turbulence effect for next-generation Urban Air Mobility aircraft (RS287)

Aerospace Engineering

Closing date: 6 March 2023

Fully Funded EPSRC DTP and Swansea University PhD Scholarship: Multiscale spatiotemporal agent-based models with continuous traits (MustABM) (RS280)

Mathematics

Closing date: 6 March 2023

Tuition fee ONLY Welsh Government part-time DBA Scholarships: Value-Based Health and Care Academy Scholarship (RS175)

Doctor of Business Administration

Closing date: 8 March 2023

Fully Funded Swansea University and CISM PhD Scholarship: Advanced Dielectrics for Next Generation Electronics and Optoelectronics (RS281)

Materials Engineering

Closing date: 8 March 2023

Fully Funded UKRI PhD Scholarship: Discourses of Trust in User-generated Evidence (TRUE) (RS274)

Applied Linguistics

Closing date: 14 April 2023

Fully Funded UKRI PhD Scholarship: TRUE: Trust in User-generated Evidence (RS190)

Law

Closing date: 14 April 2023

Fully Funded UKRI PhD Scholarship: TRUE: Trust in User-generated Evidence (RS189)

Psychology

Closing date: 14 April 2023

Fully Funded EPSRC DTP PhD Scholarship: Visualisation of Temporal Networks through Interactions with the Space-Time Cube (RS179)

Computer Science

Closing date: 5 May 2023

The James Pantyfedwen Foundation Grant for Welsh Postgraduate Students

Various subject areas

Closing date: 31 May 2023

Fully Funded Swansea University PhD Scholarship: Examining Biomechanical, Neuromuscular, and Muscle-Tendon Changes Following Meniscal Surgery (RS288)

Sport and Exercise Sciences

Closing date: 2 June 2023

Postgrad Solutions Study Bursaries 2023/24

Various Subjects

Closing date: 30 September 2023